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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...nearby service teams will be scheduled for the Saturdays what games are not to be played with Yale and Princeton, and it is possible that during the week practice games will also be played with service teams. In as much as the various military and naval organizations in and around Boston contain many professional and ex-University amateur players of ability, such contests will be exceptionally interesting...
Ultimately the money will come in; it always does, for we have a habit of coming through finally in everything we undertake, but the problem is to raise that sum and do it now. It ought to be unnecessary to have to send collectors around to the delinquents, but even that torture may have to be resorted to unless something radical occurs. We have to get that missing $4,000 in to Phillips Brooks House immediately, or at least let them know why we have not paid. We do not want to get the "scrap of paper" attitude toward pledges...
...thus shirks his military duty, he becomes a liability to the nation. This Corps is a preparatory school for national service and everything we learn here is a drop in the bucket we must fill before we can become officers. There have been times when the thermometer was around zero and bed seemed more attractive than Soldiers Field; we have of weakness, but the systematic skipping is the symptom of a D or an F man. A habit of this kind grows, and when such men get their chance to become officers they will not only know less than their...
Unlike a first-class flivver, speed is to be the prime requisite, for to catch the elusive U-boat one must be able to sail circles around it. As is to be expected, comfort will not be found in anything built at the Ford plant. Much less will Wilhelm II rejoice at the thought of these pests among his imperial submersibles, for he can no longer rest assured of his weekly and ever-weakening toll of Allied vessels. Per chance Kultur will make him scoff when he hears a flivver manufacturer is going to check his naval warfare, but more...
...correct, for even Victor Herbert's music is not enough to warrant Mr. Brian's appearance as a sole star. It is true that Mr. Brian has been surrounded with a cast of mediocrity, which might excuse leniency in judgment. He dances as well as ever, but even stepping around as he does cannot take away the conviction that "Her Regiment" is pretty thin stuff...